Becoming deeply rooted (by Yebuny)

Since the day I started school, I can always remember working very hard to get the best grades I could, so that I would get into the best University I could, so that I would get the best job I could and reach my fullest potential. But not so long ago, I realised there was something quite fundamental that I was missing in all of that, a lesson that I can better express through the example of the bamboo tree.